Thinking at the speed of thought | Patrick Coyle

thinking ’ at the speed of thought ’ I mean ’ obviously we can’t ’ nobody can really ’ speak at the speed of thought ’ there’s not really such thing as a ’ a stream ’ of consciousness ’ I mean it’s a ’ it’s a ’ it could be ’ described as a method in literary terms or perhaps ’ even ’ in ’ the realm of ’ psychoanalysis ’ er ’ it could be ’ referred to ’ I mean ’ the stream of consciousness ’ could be referred to as ’ a technique ’ erm ’ but ’ free association is ’ probably more accurate in that context ’ actually ’ but ’ also ’ zebras ’ wow ’ I see ’ zebras ’ just right by ’ very close to the road ’ and of course the ’ the stream isn’t really ’ there and ’ at all ’ I mean it ’ we just think in waves or ’ pulses more ’ and ’ then ’ of course as soon as ’ those ’ waves or pulses of thought are verbalized they ’ no longer ’ they’re ’ well they’re nowhere near ’ I mean ’ I would never ’ argue this as a ’ accurate ’ depiction ’ or ’ erm ’ what’s the word ’ not depiction but ’ I wouldn’t even argue it as ’ an accurate ’ illustration of ’ stream of consciousness ’ thought ’ erm ’ it’s ’ just ’ me ’ thinking ’ while running ’ and then saying ’ some of the thoughts ’ that come across my mind ’ for example ’ as I was saying that ’ I was actually thinking about ’ some conkers growing on a tree and a sculpture ’ a bench of ’ a lion ’ or some other animal and ’ then ’ of course while I was ’ saying that I was ’ actually thinking about ’ erm ’ a dried-up ’ conker tree ’ or is that horse chestnut leaf ’ that had gone very ’ orangey brown ’ and then ’ connecting that with a ’ wooden ’ sculpture of a fox ’ which ’ erm ’ as ’ I was saying that I was just ’ really ’ not thinking much I was looking at ’ a tennis court ’ and ’ erm ’ something on the floor ’ probably a ’ a yoghurt ’ pot ’ and ’ and so on ’ and so on and ’ the BT Tower ’ and ’ the ’ two people ’ wearing ’ very similar T-shirts ’ and shorts and ’ seagulls ’ and then ’ the ’ dark clouds gathering ’ in the distance ’ and ’ the ’ clear plastic cup and ’ I think that’s a swallow ’ and the trees ’ and so on ’ erm ’ I probably shouldn’t do that for the whole ’ twenty ’ to twenty five minutes ’ of speaking ’ because ’ well we’re already at ’ sixteen minutes ’ and nineteen seconds ’ so ’ still not really sure how that’s going to ’ translate ’ and ’ I’m also not really sure if I have ’ time today to ’ transcribe ’ the whole thing because ’ that’s ’ already probably ’ a good ’ hour and a half ’ of writing ’ because I’m not that fast and I don’t have ’ erm ’ oh ’ well ’ maybe I could try the ’ erm ’ speech ’ software but ’ even that will probably involve me ’ speaking ’ well listening back to this ’ with earphones ’ and then speaking it ’ back ’ to my ’ computer ’ more clearly than ’ my breathy ’ slurry voice ’ and ’ that’s ’ one of those things that can’t be ’ erm ’ can’t be ’ erm ’ illustrated ’ or depicted